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Threefold puja - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 3

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 17 May, 2020 - 14:18

Threefold puja - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 3

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 17 May, 2020 - 14:18

The third day on any retreat is often when difficulties or distractions start to arise! This is a good point to tune in again with the resolution you made at the beginning of the week and recommit yourself to the vision you have for the week. You may wish to mark your resolve by doing a puja (devotional ritual). One of the practices in our Community is the Threefold puja.

Listen to a talk by Bodhilila describing ritual in Buddhism...

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Garavavati's Reflections on the slogan “Drive all Blame into one” - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 3

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 17 May, 2020 - 10:54

Garavavati's Reflections on the slogan “Drive all Blame into one” - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 3

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 17 May, 2020 - 10:54

Garavavati, living in a women’s residential Buddhist community in London, UK, shares her reflections around this slogan, particularly the choice we have between the limiting restrictions of experiencing blame and the freedom in choosing to take responsibility for our own minds.

⁣⁣⁣Reflecting that our actions have consequences, Garavavati concludes that the potential of reflecting on this slogan could lead to the ultimate freedom and protection of Awakening.

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Transforming adversity into awakening - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 3

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 17 May, 2020 - 09:08

Transforming adversity into awakening - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 3

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 17 May, 2020 - 09:08

Day 3 and point 3 on our home retreat brings us to the great challenge of what to do when things go wrong in life: how to respond in a way that supports greater peace of heart and mind; how to overcome suffering and use its energy for transformative good, particularly by moving away from a strategy of blaming ourselves or others that always fails to set us free.

Yashobodhi explores all of these points, especially in the context of us living...

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FutureDharma launch Thrive Online Appeal

From FutureDharma on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 11:00

FutureDharma launch Thrive Online Appeal

From FutureDharma on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 11:00

FutureDharma Fund and India Dhamma Trust are launching Triratna’s Thrive Online Appeal, and we need you to join us.

Our world is in lockdown. COVID-19 is changing everything: nobody knows what our world will look like in a year’s time. For some, the challenge of lockdown is overwhelming, causing a tragic surge in depression, addictions, and domestic violence.

This distanced, suffering world needs the Three Jewels more than ever.

The problem is that our centres are closed. The core of what Triratna has offered the...

Vijayasri

Celebration of the Life of Aryashila

From Order Connection on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 18:22

Celebration of the Life of Aryashila

From Order Connection on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 18:22

Dear Order members,

You are warmly invited to these celebration of Aryashila’s richly lived life. While we cannot be physically together, we can be together in hearts and minds in sharing our love for and memories of her.

26th May at 3.30 pm - for invited family and friends - live streamed from South Shields Crematorium.

27th May at 10.30 am - on Zoom for all.

Please have a candle ready to light at the start of the Zoom event which will begin with the simple online ritual...

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Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: Brahmaviharas and the Awakening of the Bodhi Mind

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 14:00

Concise and essential, Satyaraja draws out practical and profound aspects of the four Brahmaviharas, considering them as both meditation practices and as realms that we can occupy. This is the second talk in a series of four talks on the topic of karuna, compassion.

From the series Brahmaviharas and the Awakening of the Bodhi Mind given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre Winter Retreat, 2016.

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Update and Request from Tiratanaloka

From Tiratanaloka on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 11:54

Update and Request from Tiratanaloka

From Tiratanaloka on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 11:54

At present we are not able to run our residential retreats, but we have been providing online study weeks, Prostration Practice in the afternoons, as well as continuing personal communication with people.

We are doing all of this on a dana basis, at the same as loosing much of our regular income from retreat payments. We still have our overheads to cover and a full team to support.

What we ask from you is to make a donation to support us. We...

Sadayasihi

Simharava's Reflections on the Bodhicitta - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 2

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 11:17

Simharava's Reflections on the Bodhicitta - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 2

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 11:17

Simharava, living in the women’s residential Buddhist community in Berlin, Germany, talks about how she is trying to help alleviate suffering at the moment and, in particular, shares her thoughts on the Buddhist figure of the Avalokiteshvara - associated with Great Compassion - who holds the wish-fulfilling jewel to his heart.

Noting how Avalokiteshvara listens to the suffering in the world but at the same time radiates rainbow light and compassion, Simharava explores how that myth might play out in her own life.

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The Heart-Mind Oriented Towards Compassion - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 2

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 09:09

The Heart-Mind Oriented Towards Compassion - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 2

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 09:09

For Day 2, here are three teachings giving us a great 360º overview of the Bodhicitta (the deep, realised wish for all to attain liberation of heart and mind) in the Buddhist tradition. Most importantly, we discover its relevance to everyday practice in the crucial work of learning to work with our minds and becoming a happier person.

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Shakyamuni Mantra - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 2

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 06:12

Shakyamuni Mantra - Turning Arrows into Flowers: Day 2

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 06:12

The central image of this home retreat is based on the story of the Buddha when Mara attacks him with all the weapons he can muster: the Buddha sits in complete peace and openness; the arrows from his opponents drift down around him as flower petals. So you may wish to dwell with that image while chanting the mantra of the historical Buddha – the Shakyamuni mantra.

Listen to the Shakyamuni Mantra chanted at the Young Buddhist Big One in 2018

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